Liven up the landscape with artfully placed works of whimsy
“ I know to embellish — my clothing , my house , and best of all , my garden , ” says Eve Thyrum , a volunteer at theScott Arboretumat Swarthmore College and a member of the Hardy Plant Society . In this tour of her 2 - 1/4 - Akka garden , Eve shares some of her ideas for place ornamentation to make grow motif and create a sense of unity in the garden .
Eve gardens with her husband , Per , in the verdant Alfred Hawthorne of Delaware , Pennsylvania . Her articleOrnaments in the Gardenappears in the November / December 2000 issue ofFine Gardening(#76 ) .
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